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I must have overpaid the balance of Dear wife's JC Penney charge card because today she got an adjustment check.
For three cents! I told DW we'd hurry to Suntrust after she comes home from work so we can deposit the check.
On a totally different subject, some of you may recall my blogging about DW doing jury duty. Today's Palm Beach Post had an article on the upcoming trial of which my wife was part of a jury pool for.
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My wife works as a psych nurse for the state of NJ
...and occasionally will get a shift differential check if she punches out after shift transition. What delight to see an envelope containing two or three checks valued in total at 67 cents. It costs more to print them than they're actually worth.
And now the state, in a cost-cutting measure, is considering contracting to a Nursing service to staff the hospital, effectively ending my wife's job and employing inexperienced nurses to attend to extremely difficult-to-manage patients. She works on the deaf unit, and is certified in ASL, which should be required, but might not be with the contract service. Gotta love the machinations of the New Jersey political machine. The cost of lawsuits alone will destroy any benefit to contracting out. Ooopsies, gotta go deposit those checks!
She was born for all the wrong reasons but grew up for all the right ones.
Con grande amore e di affetto, Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
This is
where I believe in socialized medicine but we've messed it up here in Canada. I watched a documentary that made sense to me. In proper medical care you should expect it to lose money....this is why it should be government run and free for everyone. It should be that way because just look at the money wasted on useless crap, why shouldn't it go to saving lives from our taxes. Unlike some of my friends I do firmly believe in two tier heath care as well, if anything it will take the strain off the system.
But as it is right now even here in Canada our hospitals are the same as yours only the bills go to the government. I work for the South-east Medicare corperation and like what you said they keep slicing away at departments and farming out the services for less experienced and cheaper things.
It really should be illegal, to put peoples decent paying jobs at a loss and patients at risk.
Bailey Summers
My mom...
and her sisters inherited a LITTLE (emphasis on little) trust with some mineral rights...
One year, they got a "final" distribution of the money. My mom was so upset, her check was for HALF the amount of her sisters. . . (Yes, mom got a check for one cent.)
I suspect the postage for those checks got taken out of the trust the following year, as an administrative expense too... LOL
Anne
The point of privatising...
...is not to save money, but to pay off political contributors using a convenient excuse to transfer public money to private pockets.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
In one place?
Far be it from me to try and tell you what to do with your
personal finances, but perhaps there is an opportunity here.
Why don't you fill out a deposit slip for two cents, and ask
them for the third in cash. A bank draft or cashiers check
would be even more funny, but they charge tons of money for
those!
Reminds me a little of the time when I send a twenty dollar
check to the IRS...just cause. I figured it must have cost
them between ten and fifteen thousand to figure out what they
should do with it.
Good times. Good times.
Sarah Lynn
Sometime back, I paid off a bill ...
I didn't have an actual account with them, even.
It was effectively, an IOU for less than $10.00, because I'd left my wallet at home and had already eaten dinner at a chain restaurant.
Since I ate there often enough for them to know my face, the manager let me owe it to her, but wrote it down, along with the address info I'd given.
Somehow, after paying it off the next day, their accounting people found out about it, and for well over 3 years, I received a bill for $0.00 every month.
Besides the other costs of billing me, I think it cost them 23 cents for the postage each month. Just the postage probably amounted to about the cost of the meal I'd put on the tab.
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
PT INR
Ever since I had a pulmonary embolism in 2005, I've been on coumadin. As a result I have my blood tested every month to check how it is clotting.
This test is also essential for the mechanical heart valve that was put in me on August 13, 2008.
If I have no other blood testing other than to check my PT INR level, my share of the Quest Diagnostics bill comes to .69 cents. Quest doesn't send me the bill.
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.- Buddha
Daniel, author of maid, whore, bimbo, and sissy free TG fiction since 2000
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.- Oscar Levant